Vulgar words in The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories (Page 1)
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It was precisely as if he had said: "Do you think that anybody but a born ass would _not_ be a teetotaller, in my position?"
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You fancied I should be content if you made love to me absent-mindedly, _en passant_, between a political dinner and a bishop's breakfast."
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So take her away and stay away and make love to her."
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"For heaven's sake, don't be an infernal ass.
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He had the constitution of a she-ass, and the calm, terrific appetite of an elephant; but he maintained that night duty in January was too much for him.
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The man who puts a clock on and then goes gabbling all over the house about what he has done is an ass; in fact, to call him an ass is to flatter him."
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What an ass you are!"
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What 'ud be th' sense o' her painting her face and screeching her chest out night after night for a crowd o' blockheads, when I can keep her like a lady.
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The town laughed, of course, and spoke of him alternately as a rash fool, a hypocrite, and a mere pompous ass.